New hiking trail opens Sunday

Clifftop announced that its Storment Hauss Nature Preserve hiking trail will open to the public this Sunday, Oct. 30. Clifftop acquired the 84-acre nature preserve at 3326 Reed Road in…

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Columbia alderman resigns

City of Columbia Ward II Alderman Mark Roessler announced his resignation from office Thursday, effective immediately. “I was elected to the city council in 2009, and then re-elected three additional…

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The race for U.S. senator

Incumbent U.S. Senator Tammy Duckworth (D-Illinois) faces off against Republican attorney Kathy Salvi and Libertarian Bill Redpath in the race for U.S. Senator from Illinois on Nov. 8. Tammy Duckworth…

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Demolition Man

As a child growing up on a farm just outside of Waterloo playing with smoke bombs and rockets, Joe Brinkmann never saw himself building a demolitions company. Decades later, with…

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